[Lazarus] Enhance Macro usage by making it easier to find

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Mattias Gärtner wrote:

> Zitat von Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg at opensoft.homeip.net>:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Before I add this as a feature request in Mantis, I thought I would
>> discuss the idea first. Maybe others (and not just me) could also see
>> the benefit of this.
>> 
>> Currently Lazarus supports various macros in path and filenames[1]. But
>> to be able to use it, you need to first go look in the help to see what
>> macros are available.
>> 
>> A popular example is [2] below...
>> 
>> Anyway, my thoughts were that maybe we can add a "insert macro" popup
>> menu / button next to any EditBox where paths or filenames are entered -
>> and where macros can be used. See the attached image, where a product
>> named PINs use this idea. Now the user doesn't need to refer to help
>> files are try and remember all available macros.
>> 
>> Your thoughts?
>
> Thought 1:
>
> Under Linux and Windows users are used to the right click popup menus of edit 
> fields (for clipboard, input methods, special characters and accessibility). 
> So maybe there it would be more appropriate to add a menu item.
> Under OS X a right click popup menu is a bad idea.
>
> Thought 2:
>
> It would be nice to have completion boxes Ctrl+Space for all edit fields. 
> They could list all macros and/or all files ....
> The problem is that the gtk intf does not yet support non modal on modal 
> forms.

Why does this pose a problem ? I would think that you'd use a simple listbox for this ?

Michael.